Science matters

In the 1991, the fellows of Trinity College Dublin elected a new Provost, a well regarded Classical scholar who wrote the book s on Cicero....

I've been on a math-for-norms book binge. Singh then Eastaway and now Jordan Ellenberg's How not to be Wrong (2014). Which is the s...

Sometime in the 1970s Coillte, the semi-state forestry firm, acquired one of the old steadings in the hills above us and planted it all with...

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;  Thus unlamented let me die;  Steal from the world, and not a stone  Tell where I lie. When I was in Gra...

I had a troika of math-for-normals books on the go in parallel at the end of May.  One  The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (2013) b...

Today in Italy it is Festa della Repubblica because 80 years ago, just after WWII, they held a plebiscite [ ballot-paper ] to determine whe...

There were elements of moral hazard in The Blob's  recent voyages round the world of shipping . Shipping companies are profitable becaus...